Hallelujah!

Joda-Time was created to remedy the numerous shortcomings in the JDK’s stock Date/Time API. And it pretty much ruled for a very long time. Include it in my Maven POM and, boom!, just like that, I had a very good Date/Time API.

So imagine when I read this article at JavaWorld about JSR-310. Basically Joda-Time’s (very few) design flaws will be fixed and the spirit of Joda-Time will be included in the JDK as part of Java 8 (at least, that is the plan). I’m sure that is not a completely accurate characterization of the situation, but basically the new JDK Date/Time API will be very familiar to anyone who has used Joda-Time.